The Silk Road

A series of 7 lessons aimed at KS3 leading up to answering the assessment question- How Historically Significant is the Silk Road?

This is intended as an opportunity to consider the medieval world outside of Europe and expand the breadth of students historical understanding. It is also an opportunity to introduce students to some key ideas about the economy and trade.

Individual lesson topics are as follows:

• What was the Silk Road
• Timeline of the Silk road
• Trade on the Silk Road
• Slavery on the Silk Road
• Genghis Khan and the Silk Road
• Significance of the Silk Road
• Assessment Preparation

Some of the key historical skills developed in these lessons are: chronology, comprehension of interpretations, inference from evidence, identifying and applying significance criteria, and essay structure.

The assessment is intended to introduce students to the idea of writing about historical significance using significance criteria and how to structure an essay around those criteria.

All resources are provided in a dyslexia friendly font and with consistently formated and uncluttered slides. Teacher notes and are included in the notes section on the PowerPoint for elucidation.